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Amazon Bookmarklet [MetaBlog]

Summary:Here's a no-down-side way for people who shop at Amazon to help support their favourite web site - mine by default, any other with a little editing.

What it is: Please click and drag one of these links to your links bar or right-click to 'Add to Favourites' (or similar). You may well get a warning that the link you are adding is unsafe, that's because it uses JavaScript - sorry, you'll have to trust my programming at your own risk. Use it in future to go to Amazon to browse. Also, before you buy anything from them, display the book and click the link - you'll get the item you are about to buy displayed in its own simplified window. Finally, if you have anyweb address displayed that includes an ISBN, click the link to view details of it on Amazon. Using the bookmarklet link will ask Amazon to give me a commission on your purchase (costs you nothing more) and I'll use that to help keep my web site running.

Links: Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com

How it works: Jon Udell wrote a handy bookmarklet that lets you find a library that stocks a book you're looking at on Amazon. I've used that as the basis for a bookmarklet that detects an ISBN in the URL you are looking at and adds an Amazon partner identifier to a request to display the book ready for purchase. If there's no ISBN in the current URL, it simply launches a view of the Amazon home page, also tagged to show a referrer. In the spirit of Jon's original copyright, you are more than welcome to use this as the basis of your own bookmarklet. For example, you might want to change my referrer IDs into those of your favourite non-profit so they get the commission each time you order. If you find bugs, please let me know by following the Comments link below.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

posted at 10:52 PM (UK) | |